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Chris vs. Christophe (me vs. me)

Jun 25th

Posted by Chris in meta-blog

So, I decided to do some quick navel gazing and ego surfing by Googling my name, as I tend to do once in a while when I think about it. While it might seem vain, it’s not a bad practice once in a while to check that the information that people can find on you is conform to what you’d like them to see.

It’s quite interesting, though a little disconcerting, to see that, while all the top results in a Google query for my ‘real’ name (Christophe Laprun) still find pieces of ‘me’, these bits are less relevant than those you get searching for the ‘short’ name that I started using (and still do) while in the US (Chris Laprun).

Not sure if I should do anything about it or even what I can do to reconcile my split identity… Maybe this post will help a little. Anyone out there with the same ‘problem’?

Tweaks

Mar 19th

Posted by Chris in meta-blog

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I have tweaked this blog a little, thanks to the Redirection plugin! Quite a useful plugin, it allowed me to realize that lots of inbound links were actually not found anymore because of a different permalink configuration. This should be fixed now. I also re-directed feed URLs to point to something that can actually be used…

I also re-installed the Cross-Theme Stylesheets plugin to re-enable my custom styles. Not that big a deal but I’m quite fond of the way I highlight  updates on my post when needed. I had to tweak the plug-in a little to make it work with WordPress 2.7.1. I just commented out the following, as it was failing and it didn’t seem important (since I know that I have a wp-config.php ^_^):

require dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))) . "/wp-config.php";

Enjoy and let me know if you find any issues!

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Metacosm reloaded!

Mar 9th

Posted by Chris in meta-blog

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I finally took the time to upgrade my WordPress installation and import my old posts into the database to be able to reboot this blog which has stayed moribund for almost a year… Hopefully, I will not let it die again soon.

A lot has happened since last time I posted but this is for another time! :)

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Ugh, I disappeared again…

Oct 30th

Posted by Chris in meta-blog

For some reason, I just haven’t been interested in posting here. I have ideas but just let them slip, for now… In the mean time, go read my latest post on the dearth of open source JSR 168 portlets on JBoss Portal’s official blog.

Back from Europe

Aug 24th

Posted by Chris in meta-blog

I have spent almost a month in France, with a stop in London. Having the chance of being able to work from anywhere I can get internet access (thanks Red Hat!) allowed me to spend more time there than I had been able to in a long time. It was a very nice change of scenery (and well need mindset) and was able to do more things than usual. I will try to post about my trips in future post as I upload pictures on Flickr as well (already up are some London pictures). More later!

Soundtrack of the day

Jun 29th

Posted by Chris in meta-blog

Klaxons – Myth of the Near Future, in particular It’s Not Over Yet and As Above So Below…

First post on JBoss Portal’s blog

Jun 29th

Posted by Chris in jboss

I have finally posted a post on JBoss Portal’s developer blog. It’s a short but sweet opinion piece about how iPhone’s support for full-fledged web browsing and Apple’s SDK stance could be an opportunity for Portal developers. :)

In other news, we (as in the Portal team) have been busy working on the GA release of JBoss Portal 2.6. This work should bear fruits real soon now and it has lots of new, cool features along with improvements all over. Watch JBoss Portal’s blog for an announcement soon.

Updated to WordPress 2.1

Feb 9th

Posted by Chris in meta-blog

I finally updated the software running this blog to WordPress 2.1 and, since it had been a while, it took me quite some time to port over all my plugins with the clumsy cPanel file manager… It seems like all went well but, in case it didn’t, let me know.

For all you spammer wannabees who seem so interested in this post, don’t bother, this blog runs on the latest version of WordPress… :)

Beware!

Feb 9th

Posted by Chris in meta-blog

The Problem with Wikipedia: 'Taft in a wet t-shirt contest' is the key image here.

The potentially enormous loss of time (I don’t consider it ‘wasted’) that can occur when starting to look at Wikipedia is something that I addressed in one of my very first posts… and is perfectly captured in the above drawing! I haven’t posted here in a while, so summoning memories of my beginning in blogging might start the engine back up! ;)

xkcd.com

Moved again…

Mar 28th

Posted by Chris in life in the us

This time virtually, not physically. Codepuccino has moved to a new hosting company (thanks Jerome ^_^).

Been quite busy lately (as you might be able to tell by the posting time of this blog) but I managed to squeeze in a couple of concerts. I missed Belle and Sebastian at the 930 club (though I managed to get the audio from NPR‘s All Songs Considered) and I missed the Arctic Monkeys last night (damn!) but once again, NPR pulled through and recorded the show! Thanks, NPR! (I should really consider a donation). I managed to see Metric (who were, once again, excellent) and will be seeing Ladytron in April. I also saw Korn in Baltimore this past week-end (Mudvayne were opening for them). The show was quite good: nice visuals, energy and excellent balance. I only (somewhat) regret the fact that they chained together excerpts of a bunch of their better known songs into a “mega-mix” of sorts at one point, which was a little disappointing. But hey, I guess after a while you get bored of the crowd pleasers and you want to play some of your other stuff. I can understand that! :)

Anyway, I should be getting to bed… :)

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